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Podcast: What Is the Technical Writer's Role in Interface Design? Interview with Bogo Vatovec

In this podcast, I interview Bogo Vatovec, an expert in change management, user experience, and knowledge engineering, about the technical writer's role in interface design. Specifically, we cover the following in the podcast:

What the technical writer's role should be in the company

Why the technical writer's skills are often "accepted but not respected"

Why a technical writer needs to do more than just what he or she is told

What the technical writer's role is in relation to design and usability

The importance of spinning your criticisms of prototypes in positive ways

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About Tom Johnson

I'm a technical writer based in the California San Francisco Bay area. In this blog, I write about topics related to technical communication — Swagger, agile, trends, learning, plain language, quick reference guides, tech comm careers, academics, and more. I'm interested in , API documentation, visual communication, information architecture and findability, and more. If you're a technical writer of any kind (progressional, transitioning, student), be sure to subscribe to email updates using the form above. You can learn more about me here. You can also contact me with questions.